Paradip (Orissa): Eight police personnel are held hostage by a group of villagers opposing the Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel plant for nearly five hours today before being set free in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district.
New Delhi: Packets of tobacco products will have to carry new harsher pictorial warnings from December 1 as the government today came out with separate sets of gory graphics of cancer-affected lungs and mouth for smoking and smokeless forms of tobacco.
Chandigarh: BSP supremo Mayawati accuses the Congress of fuelling farmers' protests on the issue of land acquisition and said her political opponents were hatching a conspiracy to weaken her party.
New Delhi: A book on Congress has blamed former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for the damage to its electoral base in Hindi heartland, particularly Uttar Pradesh, where Rahul Gandhi is now trying to rebuild the party ahead of the Assembly polls next year.
New Delhi: India looks upon Africa as a new growth pole for the world economy and its progress could help resolve problems relating to food and natural resources according to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said.
New Delhi: India and Pakistan discuss demilitarisation of Siachen, a mountainous region where borderline is not demarcated, in a "constructive framework", picking up the threads of the issue after a gap of three years.
New Delhi: Bollywood bigwig Karim Morani, an accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, is sent to Tihar Jail by a Delhi court which rejected his bail plea and ordered his arrest.
Sehore (MP)/New Delhi: Differences in the civil society came to the fore with Baba Ramdev opposing demands for inclusion of Prime Minister and Chief Justice of India in the Lok Pal Bill even as Manmohan Singh reached out appealing to him not to go ahead with his indefinite fast.
Hajo/Golaghat: Thirty-six people are killed and 25 others injured in two separate mishaps in Assam where a bus carrying a marriage party plunged into a pond and an oil tanker caught fire this morning.
New Delhi: India and Pakistan inch forward in their talks on Siachen saying it has enhanced understanding of each other's position and agreed to continue the discussions in a meaningful and result-oriented manner.
New Delhi: A nervous government takes extraordinary step of deputing its four senior Cabinet ministers to the Delhi airport in a bid to persuade Baba Ramdev to give up his indefinite fast on corruption but the yoga guru insists that he would go ahead with it from June four while leaving a small window open for discussions.
New Delhi: Dismissing allegations that his family-owned Sun TV Network received pay-offs from an overseas firm, Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran says he had not favoured any particular company in granting UASL licence when he was Telecom Minister.
New Delhi: Hectic back-channel efforts are went on till late to persuade Baba Ramdev from going ahead with his indefinite hunger strike from Saturday as the Congress party and the government held consultations at the highest level to avert a Hazare-like protest on the streets.
New Delhi: The country's top medical research body ICMR says it will conduct a detailed examination of WHO's latest report on cellphone use possibly causing brain cancers even as its own independent study on the issue was already on.
Lucknow: The BJP national executive accuses Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of presiding over the "most corrupt government" since independence, saying it has lost all moral authority to rule.
New Delhi: A desperate government's efforts fails to achieve any breakthrough with Baba Ramdev deciding to go ahead with his indefinite fast here from tomorrow amidst indications that a compromise was likely in a day or two.
